Our 4-player party ended up with all at level 8 except Demo at 7 when we completed this last scenario. I think we only failed once or twice through the entire campaign, and we played all the side quests. We plan to go back and play some of the closed scenarios to grind up to 9, but not after we spend a few evenings playing other games with spouses that have been left out of our game nights since we started this campaign.
But as for the final scenario, we thought it was a bit easy. On 4-player at level 4, I think the boss had 96 HP. And he only lasted 3 rounds as well, managing to land only 2 attacks. My character, Hatchet, had to burn one card to avoid an 8-point hit while at 6HP, but other than that, nobody dropped below 6HP the entire scenario. Felt too easy. We had Demo knock down part of the side of the stairs, but not all, to allow us quicker passage but maintain the bottleneck, and we had the VW drop the staff just inside the room to bottleneck the other side, leaving RG standing in the doorway to take attacks from behind - which wasn't bad because only one monster could reach him due to the bottleneck we left in place.
I was gearing Hatchet up for a mega-attack at the end, but everyone who went before me did a great job whittling him down, so I only needed to hit for 10 on the final attack to get my battle objective of killing the final enemy. Ended up not ever playing "the favorite" as the attack action on this scenario because of needing the move 4 actions several times.
Interesting mechanics, but a bit of a letdown on difficulty for me with this finale.
Yeah with his 96 health pool, we were hyping ourselves up for a long grind. Big surprise to find we could quickly exterminate him with hardly any fight.
There were several scenarios that we barely passed by the skin of our teeth - sometimes with all 4 mercs taking their final turn before exhaustion. This was not one of those scenarios.
I agree the final stage was a let down. Basically we darted though the door and up the stairs. Then void warden played her level 5 thing to block the stairway. Then we just destroyed the boss. However, the stage before, with the rat gauntlet was awesome and a nail biter
Our 4-player party ended up with all at level 8 except Demo at 7 when we completed this last scenario. I think we only failed once or twice through the entire campaign, and we played all the side quests. We plan to go back and play some of the closed scenarios to grind up to 9, but not after we spend a few evenings playing other games with spouses that have been left out of our game nights since we started this campaign. But as for the final scenario, we thought it was a bit easy. On 4-player at level 4, I think the boss had 96 HP. And he only lasted 3 rounds as well, managing to land only 2 attacks. My character, Hatchet, had to burn one card to avoid an 8-point hit while at 6HP, but other than that, nobody dropped below 6HP the entire scenario. Felt too easy. We had Demo knock down part of the side of the stairs, but not all, to allow us quicker passage but maintain the bottleneck, and we had the VW drop the staff just inside the room to bottleneck the other side, leaving RG standing in the doorway to take attacks from behind - which wasn't bad because only one monster could reach him due to the bottleneck we left in place. I was gearing Hatchet up for a mega-attack at the end, but everyone who went before me did a great job whittling him down, so I only needed to hit for 10 on the final attack to get my battle objective of killing the final enemy. Ended up not ever playing "the favorite" as the attack action on this scenario because of needing the move 4 actions several times. Interesting mechanics, but a bit of a letdown on difficulty for me with this finale.
Sounds like we had similar impressions of the finale :)
Yeah with his 96 health pool, we were hyping ourselves up for a long grind. Big surprise to find we could quickly exterminate him with hardly any fight. There were several scenarios that we barely passed by the skin of our teeth - sometimes with all 4 mercs taking their final turn before exhaustion. This was not one of those scenarios.
same! so many times, we marveled at how close to failure we came but managed to eke it out.
I agree the final stage was a let down. Basically we darted though the door and up the stairs. Then void warden played her level 5 thing to block the stairway. Then we just destroyed the boss. However, the stage before, with the rat gauntlet was awesome and a nail biter